"Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison."

-- Renzo Novatore

#Flames Quotes #Moral Quotes #Prison Quotes

“Will nodded toward Hadrian. â€œLook at the swords heâ€™s carrying. A man wearing oneâ€”maybe he knows how to use it, maybe not. A man carries twoâ€”he probably donâ€™t know nothing about swords, but he wants you to think he does. But a man carrying three swordsâ€”thatâ€™s a lot of weight. No oneâ€™s gonna haul that much steel around unless he makes a living using them.”
“The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.”
“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.274, Penguin
“Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.”
“So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.”
“Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.”
“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”
“It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'”

Source : "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.

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